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To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
Cc: Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.dialix.com>,
        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>,
        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org,
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/compat compat1x.tgz.uu compat20.tgz.uu   
         compat21.tgz.uu
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From: Paul Richards <p.richards@elsevier.co.uk>
Date: 15 Nov 1996 10:40:15 +0000
In-Reply-To: Poul-Henning Kamp's message of Fri, 15 Nov 1996 10:38:24 +0100
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Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com> writes:

> 
> >So, I suggest we nuke the .tgz.uu files (in src and ncvs) and instead pull 
> >in things like libc.so.2.2.gz.uu and so on.  And build compat2x.tgz under 
> >the obj tree somewhere.  This means that trivial changes like pathnames in 
> >the tarballs are reduced to a one line change in the makefile or build 
> >scripts.
> 
> yes, this is my vote too.

but if the compat2x.tgz is built as part of the build why the
does it need to go into cvs as a uuencoded file. Can't it just be
pulled from the obj directory to wherever it goes in the release.

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